Rather than looking at the negatives of Florian Wirtz’s current absence, Arne Slot was keen to point out how impressive the summer recruit’s fitness levels have been for so much of the campaign.
While a swollen glut of Liverpool’s new signings have spent large swathes of the season recovering in the treatment room, Wirtz only missed one of the club’s first 26 Premier League fixtures. “It’s, in my opinion, already a big accomplishment for him that he stayed fit for such a long time,” Slot insisted.
